For the “Nameless Detective,” investigations involving matters of the heart are to be avoided. But when an old poker buddy asks him to help frazzled and distraught Kay Runyon, whose husband, Victor, is having a clandestine affair with a mystery...
While reporting on a Tijuana animal shelter, journalist Bettina Blazak falls in love with one of her story’s subjects — an adorable Mexican street dog who is being treated for a mysterious gunshot wound. Bettina impulsively adopts the dog, whom...
A man is murdered in the gardens of a Bristol hotel. Inquiries reveal that he worked as an escort for a local agency. Rose Piper, investigating DCI, cannot trace the woman he was on his way to meet, but another suspect enters the frame. Until, that...
In this page-turning short story from international bestselling author Jeffery Deaver, senior detective Jon Avery inherits a deeply troubling case. At an off-campus party, university professor Rose Taylor is drugged, undressed, and photographed on a...
Ptolemy Bent — “Popo” — is different. At an age when most babies are cooing “Mama”, Popo was speaking in complete sentences. He was reading college textbooks when he was still too young for nursery school. Popo may just be the smartest...
Black-eyes, blackguards, and glamorous blondes galore, land Perry Mason and Della Street in a pretty sweet pickle — soured beyond repair by the reappearance of Sergeant Holcomb...
Diana Regis was a stunner — and she had a shiner. But the...
The toughest detective in 1939 Atlanta is a woman by the name of Violet Cambridge. And she knows her job like she knows herself. All the shadows and alleys, the light and the dark. But when the search for a missing sister and the brutal murder of...
An icon of noir anti-heroes. Max Allan Collins’s taciturn hit man known only as Quarry made his mark in more than a dozen novels in the 1970s and ’80s. Along the way he gained a popular following and appeared in a few short stories as well,...
I’m a private eye in Tampa. My card reads:
Nationwide Detective Agency
Southeastern Division
Agent in Charge: Ed Rivers
It all started during Gasparilla Week, when our city re-enacts the good old days when that lusty pirate, José...
Dolly Rawlins is out. The unforgettable heroine of the most popular and exciting TV drama of the 1980s is free after serving a nine-year sentence for the murder of her husband.
Waiting for Dolly is a group of women who all served time with her....